Matilda of Savoy

For the Queen of Portugal, see Maud of Savoy.
Matilda of Savoy
Matilda of Savoy
Electress Palatine
Tenure30 November 1417 – 30 December 1436
Born1390
Died1438 (aged 47–48)
SpouseLouis III, Elector Palatine
HouseSavoy
FatherAmadeo, Prince of Achaea
MotherCatherine of Geneva

Matilda (or Mechtilde) of Savoy (1390–1438) was Electress Palatine as the second wife of the Elector Palatine Louis III, whom she married on 30 November 1417. She was a daughter of Amadeo, Prince of Achaea and Catherine of Geneva.

Children

Matilda had the following five children:

  1. Mathilde (7 March 1419 – 1 October 1482), married:
    1. in 1434 to Count Louis I of Württemberg
    2. in 1452 to Duke Albrecht VI of Austria
  2. Louis IV, Elector Palatine (1 January 1424 – 13 August 1449)
  3. Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1 August 1425 – 12 December 1476)[1]
  4. Rupprecht (27 February 1427 – 26 July 1480), Prince-elector archbishop of Cologne
  5. Margarete (ca. 1428 – 23 November 1466), a nun at Liebenau monastery

References

  1. ^ Troyes, Jean de; Scoble, Andrew R. (1911). The Memoirs of Philippe de Commines, Lord of Argenton: ontaining the Histories of Louis XI, and Charles VIII, Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. London: G. Bell and Sons. p. 44. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
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